Social Bookmarking Services Revisited 102
pchere writes "Social bookmarking allows you share bookmarks publicly instead of restricting them to the browser favourites. Del.icio.us is such a fast growing community and its users have created a large number of del.icio.us tools to further enhance the service. Organization by tags allows for quick retrieval of sites by topics and bookmarks are available as RSS feeds. An article in D-Lib Magazine reviews the Social Bookmarking Tools to "remind you of hyperlinks in all their glory, sell you on the idea of bookmarking hyperlinks, point you at other folks who are doing the same, and tell you why this is a good thing.""
Tags in other sites (Score:2, Informative)
Sure, you could go to google's image search, but where else can you easily see, for instance, celebrity nipples [celebrityflicker.com] or this category [celebrityflicker.com]?
Just looking at an object, and seeing other tags at the same time is extremely addictive. You can quickly jump to and fro within this kind of taxanomy with little effort. With certain experiments, we've seen a user stickyness not notice
Re:Tags in other sites (Score:1)
SPAM!!! He is involved with the founders (Score:2, Informative)
Re:SPAM!!! He is involved with the founders (Score:2)
Re:SPAM!!! He is involved with the founders (Score:1)
If people want to link to their own sites in a distinctly spammy / google-bomby way they have that right but they shouldn't end up at +5, Informative, because of it, they certainly shouldn't be gaining karma for posting a blatant shill.
That's an insult to those slashdotters who actually go out there and find good sites that
Yo mods, get off the crack! (Score:1, Insightful)
that..........????
Re:Yo mods, get off the crack! (Score:3, Insightful)
Link Page (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Link Page (Score:1)
Re:Link Page (Score:2)
The article mentions the three axes of social bookmarks: URLs, tags, and users. A simple page of links only gives you the first of those. In addition, the various sites have additional useful features that a page of links would not provide.
One of the problems I've run into in managing even my small collection of bookmarks is finding things later. Tags help quite a lot with that. "What was that link to the monthly IBM puzzles? Well, I filed it under 'IBM'. Ah, there it is." With URLs and tags (and a
de.icio.us (Score:5, Interesting)
A good place to look is the page of "popular" sites. Some strange and interesting stuff turns up there fairly routinely.
Stuff like how to cut (i.e. vegetables, meats etc) and Chess strategies among other sometimes bizarre sites.
http://del.icio.us/popular/ [del.icio.us]
Bizarre like chess strategies! (Score:2)
Re:Bizarre like chess strategies! (Score:1)
That was the exact site that was listed on del.icio.us. Yeah I'm sure an accomplished and oh, so busy, grandmaster like yourself would have no time to puruse a site as pedestrian as this.
I on the other hand am not a full time professional chess geek, and would not have otherwise stumbled upon "Ward Farnsworth's Predator at the Chessboard."
So I suppose next you're going to tell me slashdot isn't a huge timewaster and not to stay away from it.
Re:Bizarre like chess strategies! (Score:2)
Re:Bizarre like chess strategies! (Score:2)
That site is about tactics, not strategy. Do you know the difference?
Re:de.icio.us (Score:1)
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Just as a friendly fyi, I'd also suggest Hotlinks [upian.com], which is slanted to more technical / software articles.
Also, in terms of bookmarks managed solely by one individual, I *highly* recommend Andy Baio's WaxyLinks [waxy.org].
Ironically? (Score:2)
This is great and all (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:This is great and all (Score:2)
Re:This is great and all (Score:4, Informative)
I personally could care less. del.icio.us allows you to become a regsitered member (free) to have your own section of bookmarks. Only you can publish and customize to that section meaning that the only ads that show up will be the ones you put in there. You can then add a live bookmark in Firefox to the rss feed and have the last 30 links available to you anywhere you go. Rather I'm at home or at work I can keep my bookmarks together easily. del.icio.us will then keep a counter on how many people link to the same place and will give you the option of viewing other people's bookmarks who link to the same sites as you. They then take the most linked sites and place them at del.icio.us/popular. [del.icio.us] The only spam that will show up is the spam that you look for.
Some common feeds:
Re:NICE ENGLISH, JACKBALL (Score:2)
Re:This is great and all (Score:1)
There is no question but that spamming of these new social tools can and will occur; it almost goes with the territory that social forums will foster such 'parasites' and some instances have been noted already. So far, however, it does not seem to have been a major problem, largely because spam has been drowned out by legitimate use.
Is spam a good enough reason to dismiss smth.? (Score:1)
The Web is full of spam
You are getting spam on your cellphone or even in your snail-mailbox
Finally, even
However, I never heard of someone to completely stop using any of these just because of spam. So, the fact that social bookmarking is prone to attract spam (although so far it has not) is usually not a good enou
Backflip (Score:3, Interesting)
Is this the beginnings of... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Is this the beginnings of... (Score:1, Informative)
A manually operated webcrawler. (Score:5, Interesting)
Or would it just become a handy place that search engines would mine for data?
Re:A manually operated webcrawler. (Score:1)
Re:A manually operated webcrawler. (Score:1)
Re:A manually operated webcrawler. (Score:2)
Which only leaves META tags..for XML feeds...I guess it's about time robot exclusion standards were revised.
Re:A manually operated webcrawler. (Score:1)
Re:A manually operated webcrawler. (Score:2)
your spam detector needs work (Score:1)
One bookmark to rule them all (Score:5, Interesting)
Not keeping tons of bookmarks is also a good way to reduce info-overload: you only remember the stuff that matters. No more feeling compelled to check up on hundreds of old links (and then cleaning house of the dead ones yet again).
Re:One bookmark to rule them all (Score:2)
Re:One bookmark to rule them all (Score:1)
Re:One bookmark to rule them all (Score:3, Informative)
Re:One bookmark to rule them all (Score:2)
1. tags
2. social aspect (folksonomy)
3. full-text search
4. private / public bookmarks
5. nice UI
Delicious has only 1 and 2.
If you'd like to have all 5, I suggest you look at Simpy - you can use the demo/demo [simpy.com] account.
Link trend featue in a Social Bookmarks ecosystem (Score:2)
Also, I can have multiple "Topics" with Simpy (create a Topic, add a few people to it, watch their links, optionally applying a query filter over them). I use this a lot to keep abre
Re:One bookmark to rule them all (Score:1)
Yes, I do that, too. I remember being surprised when one day I realized that I could find many sites with Google faster than I could with my own bookmark set-up, however well organized it was.
Unfortunately, that doesn't work with everything, so I have my default page set to a nicely laid out menu of links I use a lot but cannot look up quickly. There are only 12 of these (mostly bank & credit
Re:Nothing to see here, move along (Score:2)
Re:Nothing to see here, move along (Score:1)
There's still the original Yahoo directory: http://dir.yahoo.com/ [yahoo.com]. Which, by the way, you can actually search for what you want. All links are hand moderated, so what you're looking for should be relevent to the category.
There's also the Open Directory Project: http://dmoz.org/ [dmoz.org]. This is the roughly the same as the Yahoo version.. but its open!
Re:Nothing to see here, move along (Score:1)
wow, not a fluff piece (Score:4, Informative)
Re:wow, not a fluff piece (Score:3, Interesting)
I use del.icio.us. I'ts great, but the
Re:wow, not a fluff piece (Score:3, Interesting)
I want it to be easy to use bookmarks in speech, not just keep them in a file.
You can see this in wiki- in wiki, if you use a [[special link syntax,]] it'll automatically link the text.
I want that for everything.
If I'm writing in Slashdot, I shouldn't have to write out less-than a href=quote (lookup-and-paste-URL-here) greater-than blah blah less-than
Re:wow, not a fluff piece (Score:1)
I've heard so much fluff about folksonomies and social this-and-that that I'm well sick of it, but you're right. It's a serious article. I've come to reliably expect real content from dlib; They do a good job. The article at Burningbird.com [burningbird.net] is a great one, too. There seems to be a divide between people who do official tree-based classification and the tag-based classifiers. The tree people say flat namespaces aren't rich enough to provide con
Re:wow, not a fluff piece (Score:1)
Re:wow, not a fluff piece (Score:1)
Comment removed (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:wow? (Score:1)
Yeah, I'll Bookmark This. (Score:4, Funny)
Good. (Score:2, Insightful)
one for your own site... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:one for your own site... (Score:2, Informative)
Spammers (Score:1)
Re:Spammers (Score:1)
I emailed Joshua (the creator) and he banned them right away.
Re:Spammers (Score:3, Insightful)
Second part (Score:5, Informative)
References better than the article? (Score:1)
Hmm... (Score:2)
Self Referential (Score:2)
blogs pointing to social booking marking tools linking to other blogs talking about syndication, itself syndicating another page talking about blogging that links to a social booking site...
I'm a bit worried about getting involved because I might not get out.
You heard about the two websites that accidetally syndicated each other didn't you? Right mess it was. I
scoring tags (Score:1)
basically, tags are given a one-digit score (1 low to 9 high) which informs the system how much a given item belongs to that tag.
so when bookmarking slashdot, for example, you might give it the following tags: news4 geek9
this means that slashdot is a 4 on the newsness scale, but 9 on the geekness scale. this sort of quantification would really come in handy for searches. when you search for "news," slashdot wo
Simpy (Score:2)
heh (Score:1)
Great for finding out about the latest viral pages (Score:1)
I've been using del.icio.us for about a year now, but I hardly ever visit the site itself except when I'm adding or retrieving my own bookmarks. Instead, I use the fantastic populicious [populicio.us] RSS feeds to tell me what the new popular links of the day are, coupled with RSS feeds for various tag intersections that I'm interested in.
I've found out about a helluva lot of stuff via del.icio.us over the last year that I just wouldn't have found out about otherwise.If you haven't used it yet, give it a look.
Digg (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Digg (Score:2, Insightful)
I still use it though.
Data validation (Score:2, Informative)
Here's what I want (Score:2, Interesting)
Could be solved by a mix of RSS-feed and Firefox plugin?
Anything like this exists?
Oh, and it should be easy as hell to input a new site, or it will never be popular...
Re:Here's what I want (Score:1)
I was doing this back in 1994 on my web site.. (Score:2)
Spammers (Score:3, Informative)
I keep thinking: "One of these days, the spammers are going to mess up this system."
Social Bookmarks Services Stock Market (Score:2)
http://buzz.research.yahoo.com/bk/market/market.h t ml?_mid=8976 [yahoo.com]
Fantasy market, but fun to play and watch.
The 2 leaders there, Delicious and Furl, are commercial (one has VC funding and the other is owned by a publically traded company). Simpy [simpy.com] is the first independent service there, and I hope you can see why [simpy.com] (demo/demo account). Yes, I'm a little biased, see my URL above.
del.icio.us = use.less (Score:1, Insightful)
Yuck (Score:1)
why is bookmarking back now (Score:2, Informative)
I think for most people, me included, bookmarking is easier and often provides more useful information to others than blogging, there is clearly overlap.
Services such as Wists [wists.com] which is somewhere between Flickr [flickr.com] and del.icio.us [del.icio.us] are an example of a bookmarking systems that are complimentary to del.icio.us allowing people to boo [del.icio.us]
Feed Me Links (Score:1)
It's a really great social bookmarking site. The userbase is still somewhat small, but it's growing quickly! Feed Me Links provides a great user interface, Firefox extension, IE plugin, RSS feeds, tags, Flash sidebar, and so much more!
Try this out.... (Score:1)
I have most of my links public at http://links.klatt.us/public.php?user=klatt [klatt.us] but I have a few that are private.
... and oh yah, RSS feeds
too small pics (Score:1)
This is useless.
another community bookmarking service (Score:1)
spurl.net (Score:1)
There is also zniff [zniff.com] which searches in the bookmarks in spurl.net
Importing bookmarks (Score:1)